A nearly life-size fresco just discovered in Pompeii depicts the initiation rituals of the mystery cult of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. The fresco was over 100 years old when the ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...

There has been a surveillance of the Italian authority over this fresco. We are not allowed in Italy to paint back anything that is not present. The whole restoration took a long time. It took 18 ...

While frescoes did not reach their height of popularity until the High Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the art was practiced long before. The first frescoes were ...

"The discovery we are showing is historic," Italian Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli said in the statement. The fresco "is an exceptional historical document and, together with the fresco of ...

The fresco, dating to 40–30 BC ... as historic because the discovery we are presenting is historic," said Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, who attended the unveiling of the frescoes.

POMPEII, Italy - Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered a new fresco, a type of mural painting, giving them more insight into the Dionysiac rituals in the ancient world. Dig deeper ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision ...

A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how ...

To say there’s a lot of wine flowing across the nearly life-size fresco recently discovered in Italy’s ash-buried Pompeii would be an understatement. And it should come as no shock that the beverage ...